After a brief moment of shock, the Water Conservancy Bureau's officials and workers immediately crowded around Li Long, all talking over one another with questions.
Li Long pointed at the reservoir bed below. "Look, the water's almost all pumped out now. There are plenty of fish down there, but what you're wearing today isn't very suitable."
"What's unsuitable about it?" Yang Bo could already see all the fish in the puddles on the reservoir bed. Excited, he rolled up his sleeves, then his trouser legs. "I knew we'd be catching fish today, so I deliberately changed into an old pair of shoes. I can just wash these clothes when I get home. Hahaha, fish, here I come!"
Watching Yang Bo charge down without a care, several other men eagerly followed, rolling up their trousers and sleeves as they went. One clearly wasn't used to the muddy terrain and fell before he even reached the bottom, coating himself in mud.
Amid everyone's laughter, he climbed to his feet without the slightest embarrassment and kept charging toward the puddles.
Two women who were rather particular about cleanliness stood hesitating on the dam, while everyone else rushed down. They had been told they were coming to catch fish today, so most had come prepared.
In the end, even the two women on the dam couldn't resist and prepared to go down. One intended to take off her shoes and go in her socks, but Li Long hurriedly stopped her.
"You must keep your shoes on. There's all sorts of rubbish under this reservoir. When we dredged it last year, one worker had his foot pierced by a piece of wire down there. He needed several injections before it healed."
Hearing this, the carefully dressed woman hurriedly put her shoes back on, thanked Li